I see many posts, comments about aircraft spec and claiming it should be buffed or nerfed or aircraft X doesn’t have as good specs as Y and should change br etc etc etc.
Wo gives a flying shite when 90% just headon the first thing they see or compete with one another over the most insignifcant target in the match?
Hell I give you an extra 300 horsepower and guarantee these guys will still just headon then immediately turn fight or get themselves killed as soon as quickly as possible.
I mean if specs didnt matter, aircrafts placed at the same BR would have exact same flight model and arments and only change would be cosmetic (think like Battlefield 4), and even then smaller aircrafts would perform better simply due to being smaller target.
Specs do matter tho so people do argue about these things. You dont want your aircraft to fight against aircraft thats better in every way because you cant always force a headon.
For people that actually know how to use their aircraft, knowing the specs is a HUGE advantage, saying that if one aircraft had a 25mps climb rate doesn’t matter even if the other plane has a 1mps climb rate is like saying a Maus and a Sherman are equivalent because All tanks shoot each other anyways
my point is this is the overwhelming mentality of the playerbase.
You are a bomber - fly directly into the enemy team
You are a ground attcker - fly directly into the enemy team
You are a bomber - fly directly into enemy team
You are strike fighter - fly directly into enemy team
You are fighter - fly directly into enemy team
You have 1000hp - fly directly into enemy team
1000000000000HP - Fly directly into enemy team
You are agile fighter - fly directly into enemy team
Slow aircraft - fly directly into enemy team
no guns - fly directly into enemy team
Regardless of spec etc - people do the exact same thing.
Then pretend the cause of death is the 0.5 horsepower that caused it.
Very few put any effort into their matches and lack self awareness.
Play like turd but genuinely believe the issue is the -10hp compared to the enemy.
give the man extra 500hp - watch them do exactly the same dumb shit.
Problem is that it is the VAST majority of the playerbase these days.
It is so bad these days that i can come top 3 in a team reliably with a bloody wellington or any bomber.
I see terrible mentalities and decision making yet they cannot comprehend their own actions and it is an ever increasing behaviour.
You would think majority here on the forums are experienced real life fighter pilots with extensive knowledge, then you go into match and you see anything other.
People need to look at themselves.
I am not referring to myself mate.
Are you playing AAB or ARB
I am not referring to myself and have over 10k hours mate.
I don’t see to much of what you are describing in Arb, but definitely aab
I just want to know where you see this action, it really does matter
every single match, for years now.
Its like people have absolutely 0 accountability for their own actions or gameplay and blame it on someone else having 0.5ms climb rate.
Who gives a fuck what climb rate you or they have when all your gonna do is just headon the first target irrespective of everything else.
Those usually dont try to understand the game nor the aircraft they fly. Nor, from my experience, visit this forum.
Ok, I see what you mean now. I guess I was misunderstanding? Yes people complain because of skill issue, they blame it on some tiny advantage someone else’s plane has, when in reality they could have avoided the fight be being aware, or they could have won if they had used their planes advantages over the others.
Like any vehicle in the game, half of the appeal of the game is that its accurate to real life as much as physically possible.
So a lot of the time discussions about buffs or nerfs are to do with getting an aircraft in-line with what it should be like in real life.
Its not uncommon for comparisons to be made in books and such, and so can be used for rough baseline for how a vehicles stands. For example if it was reported in multiple books that one aircraft could rather readily outturn another, but in game it cannot, then its a good starting point for fixing it.
After that, it is fundementally a game that uses relative performance for balance and not figures such as service dates. To that end, if one aircraft is massively better than another at the same BR, then its a good indicator that one or the other is at the wrong BR.
Players being bad at the game, is not a good reason to just ignore reportable issues,
I think i might get what you’re saying… The point is
Specs exist due to gaijin policies making that game realistically as possible (which sometimes they kinda miss) but yeah… If they didn’t had these policies
This wouldn’t be the game we all love to play and… Suffer…
the people you’re referring to are not as skilled people
Or have much knowledge in gameplay,
Which is alright,
Not everyone as bright in this game,
But specs however do exist to give that touch of feeling while flying for players that do understand.
Well that’s however my opinion.
Wish you all an outstanding weekend
you are missing the point my man
people will complain that the Mustang is missing x amount of horsepower which is the reason they died and its not fair - all the while turnfighting a bloody biplane.
Man yells at ghosts: the thread
Probably memers.
I guess to answer the threads question, everyone cares about aircraft spec’s for different reasons, some people are upset because they had a skill issue, and some are looking for historical accuracy. Ones who had a skill issue make up a good portion of the complaints, trying to make the game less balanced, and it is frustrating that they do this. The others are the opposite of the people with skill issues, and try to balance the game more (most of the time). This is generally respected.